{"id":478347,"date":"2026-02-19T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478347\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:34:07","slug":"celtic-ban-on-green-brigade-stands-as-meeting-leak-kills-martin-oneills-hopes-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478347\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic ban on Green Brigade \u2018stands\u2019 as meeting leak kills Martin O\u2019Neill\u2019s hopes for now"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hoops boss had hoped for a return to full house but stand off between club and ultras group continues<\/p>\n

07:08, 19 Feb 2026Updated 12:18, 19 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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The Green Brigade<\/a>‘s ban is set to stand for now after info from a meeting with Celtic chiefs leaked online.<\/p>\n

The ultras group have been locked out of Celtic Park since October following incident during a Premiership clash at home to Falkirk.<\/p>\n

Fans have protested against the ban with banners at matches, calling on the board to stand down and the GB to be permitted back into Parkhead.<\/p>\n

A meeting between the club and the Celtic <\/a>supporters collective took place on Wednesday night ahead of the Hoops’ Europa League<\/a> clash against Stuttgart on Thursday.<\/p>\n

And while nothing has officially been confirmed by the club or the collective as yet, key points from the summit have been shared on social media.<\/p>\n

They claim that a positive meeting took place at the start of the week, but no resolution has been reached to let the Green Brigade back in.<\/p>\n

It’s also claimed that Celtic informed the meeting that chairman Brian Wilson would potentially contact the Green Brigade to try and resolve the ban as a “matter of urgency” on Wednesday night, but it’s unclear if this happened.<\/p>\n

Minutes of the meeting are set to be release in due course, with the ban on fan media still in place as a review remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

The continued stand off dashes Martin O’Neill’s hopes of a swift return to full houses<\/a> at the stadium. The veteran boss, who will take charge of his 1000th game against Stuttgart this evening, thought progress had been made at the beginning of the week.<\/p>\n

He said: “I think there has been some discussions of which I wasn’t party to, but I think there’s been some progress made. But as I’ve been saying, the sooner there is unity at Celtic Park, the better for all concerned. I have no doubt that the crowd behind the goal on Sunday contributed greatly to us fighting back. No question.<\/p>\n

“A full house here is something special. Every European night that I’ve had in the past was just full of special moments. Major sides were very, very concerned about coming here. The passion, the drive and the noise that’s made.<\/p>\n

“I remember the game against Liverpool in our UEFA run and John Robertson, my old friend, was standing beside me speaking to me. I couldn’t hear a word he was saying for the first 10 or 15 minutes, it was so, so loud. Little bits have been lost from that. That’s regrettable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hoops boss had hoped for a return to full house but stand off between club and ultras…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[71705,221128,2641,221127,140342,40481,403,99,2639],"class_list":{"0":"post-478347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-celtic-fc","9":"tag-celtic-park","10":"tag-europa-league","11":"tag-green-brigade","12":"tag-martin-oneill","13":"tag-scottish-premiership","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uefa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}